< Portal:Theatre < Selected anniversaries
- June 1643 – Molière, considered one of the greatest comedic playwrights in the Western tradition, left his prosperous family and embarked on a theatrical career
- 6 June 1954 - Birth of Harvey Fierstein, a Tony Award winning American actor and playwright
- 10 June 1911 - Birth of Terence Rattigan, a British dramatist whose plays include The Browning Version and The Deep Blue Sea
- 18 June 1979 – Death of Rodolfo Usigli, "the playwright of the Mexican Revolution"
- 20 June 1703 – Premiere of The Love Suicides at Sonezaki by Chikamatsu Monzaemon (pictured), often considered the greatest Japanese dramatist
- 21 June 1737 – Licensing Act of 1737 passed, a landmark act of censorship, which gave the Lord Chamberlain the power to approve plays to be staged in England
- 24 June 1924 – Birth of Efua Sutherland, a foundational figure in modern Ghanaian drama
- 28 June 1867 - Birth of Luigi Pirandello, the Nobel Prize winning Italian writer of Six Characters in Search of an Author and many other plays
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